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 Australian International Animation FestivalAnimation fans can check out the best offerings from Australia and around the world with a national film festival visiting Darwin this weekend.The director of the Australian International Animation Festival says it is the first time the event has taken to the road in such a big way. Malcolm Turner says there has been a boost in interest in animation, with entries to the festival coming from far and wide. "I think it's an art form that does particularly suit the Australian resource scene and probably something that attracts the attention of creative people who are living in place where there might not be a lot of other resources for them to get into a lot of other moving image artwork," he said. more www.aia... (97) added by Levent OZLER |
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 Electric Rain Announced Swift 3D Version 4Electric Rain announced the release of Swift 3D Version 4.0, a stand-alone application that lets designers build and export vector and raster-based 3D animations to the Macromedia Flash (SWF) file format, as well as other popular formats.Like its predecessor, Swift 3D 4.0 aims to help 2D designers move to 3D animations quickly and easily. It exports high-quality, low-bandwidth vector and raster-based graphics to a variety of formats, including Flash SWF, making it easier for designers to convert their traditional 2D work to more interactive animated formats. "Macromedia opened the Flash file format to enable companies like Electric Rain to deliver rich 3D content that can be experienced by over 500 million users who already have Flash Player installed on their desktops," said Carol Linburn, senior product manager, Macromedia. "With Swift 3D V4, Electric Rain allows Flash developers to incorporate striking 3D elements in their designs, product demonstrations, virtual tours, games and advertisements." Swift 3D Version 4.0 is available immediately on the Windows platform, with the Macintosh OS X version soon to follow. It costs $189 for the full version, and $99 for upgrades. more www.gra... (170) added by Levent OZLER |
 Bongo Keyframe Animation for Rhino is ShipppingMcNeel today announced that Bongo, keyframe animation for Rhino, is shipping. The suggested retail price is US$/€495. Educational pricing is available for schools, students, and faculty.Bongo brings professional animation into Rhino 3.0 using familiar keyframe tools found in high-end animation packages," explains Andy le Bihan, Bongo product manager. "Bongo is focused on product design evaluation, and visualization rather than entertainment and advertising. Animate moving, scaling, and rotating Rhino objects without exporting. Edit object and viewport animations in the Rhino window using simple drag and drop. Modify your objects and motion data without losing valuable time changing between programs. Easily preview your animations inside Rhino, in real time, in any shading mode by scrubbing the timeline or playing the animation. Then render straight to an animation file using any Rhino renderer including wireframe, openGL, render preview, render, TreeFrog, Flamingo, and Penguin. Bongo is also great for demonstrating moving objects using real-time playback in the Rhino viewports - just scrub the timeline slider to show a client how your design works. more www.bon... (332) added by Levent OZLER |
 Video Game Design Crash CourseThey could be doing a hundred other things during their time off from school this summer.Instead, 22 Columbia teens are halfway through a two-week crash course on designing video games. The students, from Richland 1, Richland 2 and Lexington-Richland 5, are participants in an experimental workshop at W.A. Perry Middle School sponsored by the Columbia Urban League. While they get no academic credit for the activity, which runs six hours a day, it is a safe wager the teens will be the envy of computer-savvy peers when swapping summer vacation stories. Each workshop participant will leave Friday with a personalized CD-ROM with a video game and computer animation they conceived and programmed from scratch. "It's amazing how complicated these things are," said Patrick Herbert, a rising junior who attended Keenan High last year. "But I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. It's pretty cool." Jimmie Thompson, a rising sophomore at Keenan, rolled his eyes in mock indignation and chided his friend for his plodding approach through a workbook detailing how games such as "Brix" and "Caves of Doom" are built. "I'm starting to get pretty good at fixing my own problems," Thompson said. The first assignment was creating a design for a screen saver, a program that displays an image when a computer is not in use. more www.the... (88) added by Levent OZLER |
 Tomb Raider VII Coming Summer 2005?Creators of the Lara Croft comic book say the game heroine's next adventure is a year away; Eidos refuses to comment.In April, an Eidos financial report confirmed what was already widely known--that a seventh Tomb Raider game is in the works. Over the weekend, gamers got an answer about when Tomb Raider VII will be released--from an unlikely source. In a press release (viewable via a comicon.com post), Top Cow Productions announced they are temporarily halting production of the Tomb Raider comic book. According to the post, the comic "will relaunch in conjunction with the release of the seventh Tomb Raider video game in the summer of 2005." Since Top Cow is "participating in the redesign of the new game," the comic-book publisher should be in the know regarding its ship date. However, Eidos would neither confirm nor deny a summer 2005 release for Tomb Raider VII. "We're not announcing an official date," said an American representative of the Britain-based publisher. Little is known about the seventh Tomb Raider game's story or design. What is known is that, following Angel of Darkness' poor sales, Eidos ended its development agreement with Core Design Ltd. Crystal Dynamics is currently developing the new game with, according to some reports, the input of Ion Storm founder Warren Spector. more www.gam... (69) added by Levent OZLER |
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